Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-04-13
LOCAL BREYITIES.

ne liver WAS QOMu ~ ~
feet 1 inch yesterday.
The total rainfall at Woodland for the
season, up to Monday evening, was 1851
inches.
Company F, First Artillery, located at
Woodland, has reelected Thos. q. Hughes
to the Office of First Lieutenant.
The annual meeting of the Protestant
Orphan Asylum will be held at the Congre-
gational Church, at 2 P. NJ. to-day.
1t was storming hard on the Shasta d.
vision Of the California and Oregon Rail-
road yesterday, and on the hill the weather
during the day was cloudy and threatening.
Last Sunday Deputy Sheriff Kimlock, OF
Suisun. assisted by the Deputy Fish Com
missioners, arrested four Cinnamon for
fishing in Suisun Bay with long sturgeon
lines, contrary to law.
The indictment against J. w. Mccarthy,
ex-Clerk of the Supreme Court, having
been discovered to be defective, the Grand
Jury at S N Francisco has remedied the
matter by reindicting him.
The policemen at the Capitol grounds
have given notice to those who tether their
COWS in the Park near the State Printing
Office, that the next one found there will
be turned over to the Poundmaster.
The choir of Westminster (Presbyterianl
Church will give a concert at the church
this evening at o'clock, and have ar
ranged for the occasion programme that
cannot fail TO please all who attend.
A meeting of the Commissioners to erect
monument over the grave of James W.
Marshall, at Coloma, will be held in this
city in few days for the purpose of or
ganization and entering upon the work in
trusted to them.
1t is noticeable that the English spar
rows, few of which put in an appearance
on Front street about two years ago, have
increased and multiplied immensely, and
the native sparrow is not now to be seen
in the vicinity in which the combative
newcomers have taken up their abode.
Two carloads of thoroughbred horses,
comprising the stables of Messrs. Murray,
Pritchard, Todhunter and Samuels, were
shipped to San Francisco yesterday, to be
ready for the opening of the Blood Horse
Associations meeting next Saturday, and
three or four carloads more are to follow.
The steamer Dover arrived from the
upper Sacramento yesterday with grain
and bargeload of wood, and the Clara
Belle from the upper Sacramento with
produce. The steamer Empire City and
barge Hills Ferry passed through, en- route
for Stockton from the upper Sacramento,
with wood.
Last Monday Deputy Constable Todhun-
ter, of Washington, took to the county Jail
at Woodland five prisoners, sentenced by
Justice Bright to fifteen days imprison-
ment each for vagrancy. Yesterday Con-
stable Frommelt, of the same place. took
over three more prisoners, two of whom
will serve fifteen days each for vagrancy
and the other sixty days for petty larceny.
About II o'clock Tuesday night three
boys, II to IA years of age, were returning
home from party when on Third street
they were stopped by three tramps, who
demanded to know whether they had any
"beer money" about them. The arrival
of citizen interrupted the proceedings at
first, but subsequently, when the boys got
a chance, they scattered and ran. the men
pursuing but not getting anything from
them.
About noon yesterday two men were OBJ
served by Daniel Gardner to be going
through" the pockets of very much inc
briated individual who had wandered into
Mr.. Gardeners woodward, at Fourth and l
streets. He informed officer Sullivan, who,
from the description given, subsequently
arrested one OF them, who gave the name
of John Daily. He did not have any money
in his possession, and tits doubtful whether
the victim" lost any. His drunk was
too complete forhim to have had any funds
remaining.
In the Superior Court of Yolo county on
Monday John f. Azayedo, recently con-
victed of manslaughter in killing Frank
Lewis on the Yolo side of the river, oppo-
site Freeport, was sentenced to three and a
half years Imprisonment at Folsom. Yes
terday Sheriff Watkins conveyed him to
prison. Azavedo still maintains stoutly
that he acted in self-defense, declaring that
Lewis shot at him first. Probably if Aza-
vedo had not confessed that he shot Lewis,
the killing would be mystery to this day,
as there was no evidence against him until
he furnished the clue.